Salesforce hopes to stop employers looking abroad for ICT skills
Salesforce’s new talent strategy looks to touch all aspects of ICT education from schools to channel partners.South African employers tend to look abroad for ICT skills as the cost and time investment of upskilling locals is too much.
At its Salesforce Live Cape event on Tuesday, the firm announced a new talent strategy that is built on five pillars, namely:The South African population “We need to come together and do things differently if we want to tackle the skills gap. It is not sustainable for businesses to import skills from abroad,” senior talent programme manager at Salesforce South Africa, Ursula Fear said in a media statement.
because of the monetary and time investment required to upskill recent graduates. Add ever-shrinking budgets to the mix and one starts to understand why employers would look to cheaper markets for their ICT needs.
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